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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Behavior table to see how such swarms might manifest.
Swarm Behavior
d4
Behavior
1
Crawls on walls in a vaguely bipedal shape
2
Makes skittering noises that sound like
whispered chanting
3
Skeletal visages, giant eyes, or the faces of nearby creatures appear in relief amid its mass
4
Occupies and animates a corpse or other debris as if it were alive
Bludgeoning, Piercing, Slashing
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
nefarious powers grip an area, populations of maggots, scarabs, and similar scavenging insects explode and become aggressive predators. Roll on the Swarm Behavior table to see how such swarms might
manifest.
Swarm Behavior
d4
Behavior
1
Crawls on walls in a vaguely bipedal shape
2
Makes skittering noises that sound like whispered chanting
3
Skeletal visages, giant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
38. Ritual Chamber The cult used to perform rituals in this sunken room. The chanting heard throughout the dungeon originates here, yet when the characters arrive, the dungeon falls silent as the
chanting mysteriously stops. The chanting stops as you peer into this forty-foot-square room. The smooth masonry walls provide excellent acoustics. Featureless stone pillars support the ceiling, and a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
38. Ritual Chamber The cult used to perform rituals in this sunken room. The chanting heard throughout the dungeon originates here, yet when the characters arrive, the dungeon falls silent as the
chanting mysteriously stops. The chanting stops as you peer into this forty-foot-square room. The smooth masonry walls provide excellent acoustics. Featureless stone pillars support the ceiling, and a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
6. Sacrificial Chamber Unless they are lured to area 5 by sounds of battle, four yuan-ti broodguards (see appendix D) stand guard in this chamber, one in each corner. A bloodstained altar stands in
character who insults or otherwise annoys Fenthaza might end up here, shackled to the altar. Chanting Skulls The altar has six niches (one at each end and two on each long side). The human skull in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
6. Sacrificial Chamber Unless they are lured to area 5 by sounds of battle, four yuan-ti broodguards (see appendix D) stand guard in this chamber, one in each corner. A bloodstained altar stands in
character who insults or otherwise annoys Fenthaza might end up here, shackled to the altar. Chanting Skulls The altar has six niches (one at each end and two on each long side). The human skull in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
section of the east wall has not yet been plastered or painted over, revealing the passageway to the chapel (area 14). The rhythmic chanting magically carried into area 3 grows louder still at the
entrance to the passageway. A successful DC 14 Wisdom (Perception) check identifies the chanting as belonging to some sort of ritual involving enchantment magic. Treasure The girallon wears a golden
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
you may choose another student from the “Fellow Students” section in chapter 3. Read or paraphrase the following: You hear enthusiastic chanting and clapping. In the library’s main area, students ring
takes place in the easternmost portion of area B8 (see map 3.1 in chapter 3). Though rowdiness isn’t allowed in the library, the librarians are fascinated by the challenge and want to see how the characters handle this situation. Some students live for performing and burst into song
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sleeping Dragon’s Wake
Viantha Found When the characters find Viantha, read the following boxed text aloud to set the scene: A strange, mystical chanting in a dry, crackling voice and a rank smell come from a small
mastermind (see appendix A) in the process of summoning more undead to harass Claugiyliamatar with a magical ritual. Before the characters can attack, Viantha summons specters to her side. There is one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Dragonflesh Grafters The best way to identify one of these grafters is if you see someone running around chanting, “Look at me! I’m a dragon! I’m a draaaaaagon!”
-Fizban
Dragonflesh grafters
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
; means “magic” in the Goblin tongue. Should ye happen upon goblins chanting “booyahg booyahg booyahg,” be warned! There might be a powerful sorcerer lurking in their midst
serving as the tribe’s boss, a fiend that has made its way into the world, or an undying lord such as a lich or a vampire. (For more information on undying lord patrons, see the Sword Coast
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sleeping Dragon’s Wake
Viantha Found When the characters find Viantha, read the following boxed text aloud to set the scene: A strange, mystical chanting in a dry, crackling voice and a rank smell come from a small
mastermind (see appendix A) in the process of summoning more undead to harass Claugiyliamatar with a magical ritual. Before the characters can attack, Viantha summons specters to her side. There is one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
section of the east wall has not yet been plastered or painted over, revealing the passageway to the chapel (area 14). The rhythmic chanting magically carried into area 3 grows louder still at the
entrance to the passageway. A successful DC 14 Wisdom (Perception) check identifies the chanting as belonging to some sort of ritual involving enchantment magic. Treasure The girallon wears a golden
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
you may choose another student from the “Fellow Students” section in chapter 3. Read or paraphrase the following: You hear enthusiastic chanting and clapping. In the library’s main area, students ring
takes place in the easternmost portion of area B8 (see map 3.1 in chapter 3). Though rowdiness isn’t allowed in the library, the librarians are fascinated by the challenge and want to see how the characters handle this situation. Some students live for performing and burst into song
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
12. Cultist Hideout Droki enters this cavern from the east, via a narrow tunnel that comes up through a crack in the cavern floor (see the “Narrow Tunnels” section of the “Whorlstone Tunnels: General
Features” sidebar). West of the cavern is a shrieker that serves as an alarm system (see “Fungi Patches”) and a pit trap (see “Trap”). The smell of brimstone and foul chemicals emanates from this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
12. Cultist Hideout Droki enters this cavern from the east, via a narrow tunnel that comes up through a crack in the cavern floor (see the “Narrow Tunnels” section of the “Whorlstone Tunnels: General
Features” sidebar). West of the cavern is a shrieker that serves as an alarm system (see “Fungi Patches”) and a pit trap (see “Trap”). The smell of brimstone and foul chemicals emanates from this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Dragonflesh Grafters The best way to identify one of these grafters is if you see someone running around chanting, “Look at me! I’m a dragon! I’m a draaaaaagon!”
-Fizban
Dragonflesh grafters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
. If the cult is here in force, thirty human cultists stand in neat rows before the statue, chanting to Asmodeus with wooden goblets in hand while their leader, Victoro Cassalanter (see appendix B
faint sound of chanting is audible coming from a corridor to the northwest. To the south are three cells with iron-banded wooden doors. A small, barred window is embedded in each door at the height of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
. If the cult is here in force, thirty human cultists stand in neat rows before the statue, chanting to Asmodeus with wooden goblets in hand while their leader, Victoro Cassalanter (see appendix B
faint sound of chanting is audible coming from a corridor to the northwest. To the south are three cells with iron-banded wooden doors. A small, barred window is embedded in each door at the height of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
stench of death that permeates the dungeon is strongest here. As the characters approach this 50-foot-high cave, they hear minotaurs chanting and stomping. This area contains the following: Minotaurs
. The fog swirls through this cavern, agitated by the dancing of eleven chanting minotaurs.
Offal Pile. Low stone barriers constrain a massive pile of rotting, dismembered body parts.
Altar. Behind
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
with the aftermath (see “Wintersplinter Attacks” in the “Special Events” section in chapter 12). Strahd travels to Yester Hill, arriving astride his nightmare, Beucephalus (assuming the characters
use their actions to chant and dance about. To complete the ritual, the druids must chant for 10 consecutive rounds, with at least one of them chanting each round. If a round goes by and none of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
14. Chapel of Evil The chanting heard throughout the tomb originates in this chapel, whose pews are filled with more than two dozen worshipers — and, oddly, with two large chunks of rough black stone
girallons flank him, each of them also missing an eye and hand.
The priest smiles and gestures for you to enter the chapel and take a seat. And the chanting fills your mind with a desire to obey
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
14. Chapel of Evil The chanting heard throughout the tomb originates in this chapel, whose pews are filled with more than two dozen worshipers — and, oddly, with two large chunks of rough black stone
girallons flank him, each of them also missing an eye and hand.
The priest smiles and gestures for you to enter the chapel and take a seat. And the chanting fills your mind with a desire to obey
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
see that the stonework of the depression is stained with the blood of innumerable sacrifices, and they can hear the gentle lapping of the Darklake coming up through the grate. The chanting grows louder
one faction of fish-folk from the other, but they see the archpriest of the Sea Mother and his whip moving toward the altar. Bloppblippodd calls for the sacrifices to be brought forth, and one kuo-toa
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
) components. If the spellcaster can’t provide one or more of a spell’s components, the spellcaster can’t cast the spell. Verbal (V) A Verbal component is the chanting of esoteric words that sound like
spell doesn’t consume its materials and doesn’t specify a cost for them, a spellcaster can use a Component Pouch (see “Equipment”) instead of providing the materials specified in the spell, or the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
are chanting in unison. Each one stands next to a black stone pillar and is focused on a roiling fog cloud, 8 feet in diameter, that floats at the center of the room 10 feet above the floor. Lines of
, destroying the line of energy emanating from it and weakening the ritual. When all six lines of energy are destroyed, the fog cloud vanishes. As long as at least one column is active, characters see
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
area 10) are devising a means of escape using a set of superior mason’s tools hidden there, and that these tools can also weaken the eidolon in the Temple of Moloch (see area 25 in chapter 4). They also
know that the muralists are loyal to Moghadam and cannot be trusted. The rhythmic chanting magically carried into area 3 grows louder in this area. Nolzur’s Gift
If the characters help him escape
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
spellcaster can’t cast the spell. Verbal (V) A Verbal component is the chanting of esoteric words that sound like nonsense to the uninitiated. The words must be uttered in a normal speaking voice. The words
Component Pouch (see chapter 6) instead of providing the materials specified in the spell, or the spellcaster can substitute a Spellcasting Focus if the caster has a feature that allows that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
are chanting in unison. Each one stands next to a black stone pillar and is focused on a roiling fog cloud, 8 feet in diameter, that floats at the center of the room 10 feet above the floor. Lines of
, destroying the line of energy emanating from it and weakening the ritual. When all six lines of energy are destroyed, the fog cloud vanishes. As long as at least one column is active, characters see
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
opens the doors without first removing or disabling the runes, they take thunder damage as per the spell. A window at the back of the inn on the second floor is open (see “The Upstairs” below). A
common area and courtyard, the ritual is underway to fully activate the statue of Talos, which is currently in the basement. THE RITUAL
Backes (Illuskan human gladiator) leads the chanting in the common
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
see that the stonework of the depression is stained with the blood of innumerable sacrifices, and they can hear the gentle lapping of the Darklake coming up through the grate. The chanting grows louder
one faction of fish-folk from the other, but they see the archpriest of the Sea Mother and his whip moving toward the altar. Bloppblippodd calls for the sacrifices to be brought forth, and one kuo-toa
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
with the aftermath (see “Wintersplinter Attacks” in the “Special Events” section in chapter 12). Strahd travels to Yester Hill, arriving astride his nightmare, Beucephalus (assuming the characters
use their actions to chant and dance about. To complete the ritual, the druids must chant for 10 consecutive rounds, with at least one of them chanting each round. If a round goes by and none of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
stench of death that permeates the dungeon is strongest here. As the characters approach this 50-foot-high cave, they hear minotaurs chanting and stomping. This area contains the following: Minotaurs
. The fog swirls through this cavern, agitated by the dancing of eleven chanting minotaurs.
Offal Pile. Low stone barriers constrain a massive pile of rotting, dismembered body parts.
Altar. Behind
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
level; level 3 is a zone 100 feet above ground level, both of which can be reached only by flying. Once your eyes adjust to the stunning chaos of Tiamat’s Temple, you see that its interior is a single
dimly blue, green, red, white, or black—the hues of evil dragons and their world-consuming queen.
Red Wizards stand in each of the five vaults, chanting and channeling magical force into the central
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
low, strange chanting.
When the characters investigate, add the following information. Several strangely dressed people stand in the street. One who looks like a priest chants as the others open a
others kneel before it.
The object is a devastation orb, and it’s ready to explode. The cultists remove the device from its case and wait for it to detonate. See chapter 7 for descriptions of the